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ASP PICS Attribute



The PICS attribute allows appending values to the PICS label in the response header.

Note: This attribute accepts any string value, regardless of whether it is a valid PICS label.

What is PICS?

PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection) is a rating system used to classify content within websites. It looks like this:

PICS-1.1 "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" by "[email protected]" for "http://www.somesite.com" on "2002.10.05T02:15-0800" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0)

Part Description
PICS-1.1 PICS version number
"http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" Rating authority
by "[email protected]" Author of the label
for "http://www.somesite.com" URL of the rated document
on "2002.10.05T02:15-0800" Expiration date
r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0) Rating

One of the most popular rating systems is RSACi (Recreational Software Advisory Council on the Internet). RSACi uses four categories: violence, nudity, sex, and language. Numbers from 0 to 4 are assigned to these categories. 0 indicates that the page contains no offensive content, while 4 represents the highest level of potentially offensive content.

Level Violence Rating Nudity Rating Sex Rating Language Rating
0 None of the below or sports related None of the below None of the below or innocent kissing; romance None of the below
1 Injury to human beings Revealing attire Passionate kissing Mild expletives
2 Destruction of realistic objects Partial nudity Clothed sexual touching Moderate expletives or profanity
3 Aggressive violence or death to humans Frontal nudity Non-explicit sexual acts Strong language or hate speech
4 Rape or wanton, gratuitous violence Frontal nudity (qualifying as provocative display) Explicit sexual acts or sex crimes Crude, vulgar language or extreme hate speech

There are two ways to get your website rated. You can rate your website yourself or use a rating provider like RSACi. They will ask you to fill out some questions. After completing them, you will receive a rating label for your website.

Microsoft IE 3.0 and higher versions, as well as Netscape 4.5 and higher versions, support content rating. You can set the rating in IE 5 by selecting the Tools menu, then Internet Options. Choose the Content tab and click Enable. When the rating exceeds the defined level, the Content Advisor will block this website. In Netscape 4.7, you can set the rating by selecting Help and NetWatch.

We can add a rating to the website using the META tag or the response.PICS attribute.

Syntax

Parameter Description
picslabel Well-formed PICS label.

Example

Note: Since PICS labels contain quotes, you must replace the quotes with " & chr(34) & ".

Added header:


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